The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.